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Lexicon :: Strong's H4191 - mûṯ

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מוּת
Transliteration
mûṯ
Pronunciation
mooth
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1169

Strong’s Definitions

מוּת mûwth, mooth; a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill:—× at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 835x

The KJV translates Strong's H4191 in the following manner: die (424x), dead (130x), slay (100x), death (83x), surely (50x), kill (31x), dead man (3x), dead body (2x), in no wise (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 835x
The KJV translates Strong's H4191 in the following manner: die (424x), dead (130x), slay (100x), death (83x), surely (50x), kill (31x), dead man (3x), dead body (2x), in no wise (2x), miscellaneous (10x).
  1. to die, kill, have one executed

    1. (Qal)

      1. to die

      2. to die (as penalty), be put to death

      3. to die, perish (of a nation)

      4. to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)

    2. (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch

    3. (Hiphil) to kill, put to death

    4. (Hophal)

      1. to be killed, be put to death

        1. to die prematurely

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוּת mûwth, mooth; a primitive root; to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill:—× at all, × crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), × must needs, slay, × surely, × very suddenly, × in (no) wise.
STRONGS H4191: Abbreviations
מוּת verb die (Late Hebrew id. (rare); Assyrian mâtu DlHWB 395, Arabic bdb055903, Ethiopic bdb055904, Aramaic מוּת, מִית, bdb055905; Nabataean מות EutNab 14, 6; Zinjirli מת DHMSendsch. Glossary); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular מֵת Genesis 42:38 +; 3rd person feminine singular מֵ֫תָה Genesis 35:18 +; 2nd person masculine singular מַתֶּה Ezekiel 28:8; 1st person singular וָמַ֑תִּי Genesis 19:19; 3rd person masculine plural מֵ֫תוּ Genesis 7:22 +; 1st person plural מַתְנוּ Numbers 14:2; 2 Kings 7:4; מָ֑תְנוּ Numbers 14:9 +; Imperfect יָמוּת Genesis 38:11 +; יָמֹ֑ת Deuteronomy 33:6 +; וַיָּ֫מָת Genesis 11:28 +; 1st person singular אָמוּת Genesis 26:9 +; אָמֻת 2 Samuel 19:38; אָמוּ֫תָה Genesis 46:30; 3rd person masculine plural יָמ֫וּתוּ 1 Samuel 2:23 +; יְמֻתוּן Numbers 16:29; 3rd person feminine plural תְּמוּתֶ֫נָה Ezekiel 13:19 (Ges§ 72, 5) +; Imperative מֻת Deuteronomy 32:50; Job 2:9; Infinitive absolute מוֺת Genesis 2:17 +; construct מוּת Genesis 25:32 +; suffix מוּתִי 2 Samuel 19:1; מֻתָן 2 Samuel 20:3, etc.; Participle מֵת Genesis 20:3 +; suffix מֵתִי Genesis 23:4 +; feminine singular מֵתָה Genesis 30:1; Zechariah 11:9; plural מֵתִים Exodus 12:33 +; construct מֵתֵי Isaiah 22:2 +; suffix מֵתֶיךָ Isaiah 26:19; —
1. die, of natural or other causes:
a.
(1) of man, וַיִּגְוִע וַיָּמָת and he expired and died Genesis 25:8 (+ בְּשֵׂיבֶה טוֺבָה, see below), Genesis 25:17; Genesis 35:29 (P); וַיָּמָת וַיִּקָּבֵר Judges 10:2, 5; Judges 8:32; Judges 12:7, 10, 12, 15; 2 Samuel 17:23; וימלך תַּחְתָּיו וימת and he died and — reigned in his stead Genesis 36:33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 (P), 2 Samuel 10:1 = 1 Chronicles 19:1; 2 Kings 1:17; 2 Kings 8:15; 2 Kings 13:24; 1 Chronicles 1:44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50; וימת בְּשֵׂיבָה טוֺבָה and he died in a good old age 1 Chronicles 29:28 (+ Genesis 25:8, see above); as the result of smiting הכה Exodus 21:18, 20, 22 (E); + במלחמה Deuteronomy 20:5, 6, 7; 2 Samuel 19:11; בַּחֶרֶב Jeremiah 11:22; ברעב Jeremiah 11:22; מפני הדעב Jeremiah 38:9; בְּדֶבֶר Jeremiah 21:6; באבן Numbers 35:17, 23 (P); בַּמַּגֵּפָה Numbers 14:37; Numbers 17:14; Numbers 25:9 (P).
(2) figurative of wisdom, תָּמוּת חָכְמָה עִמָּכֶם Job 12:22; of courage, וַיָּמָת לִבּוֺ בְּקִרְבּוֺ and his heart died within him 1 Samuel 25:37. — 2 Samuel 2:31 strike out מֵ֑תוּ We Dr Kit Bu, compare Greek Version of the LXX.
b. of animals Leviticus 11:39; cattle Genesis 33:13 (J), fish Exodus 7:18 (E), frogs Exodus 8:9 (J), lion Ecclesiastes 9:4, worm Isaiah 66:24; כֶּלֶב מֵת, dead dog (in proverb) 1 Samuel 24:15; 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9.
c. a tree Job 14:8.
d. זִבְחֵי מֵתִים Psalm 106:28 sacrifices to the dead (idols).
2. die as a penalty = be put to death:
a. by human authority Genesis 42:20; Exodus 10:28; Exodus 21:14 (E), Genesis 44:9; Joshua 2:14 (J), Leviticus 20:20 (H), Numbers 35:12, 30 (twice in verse) (P), especially D, Deuteronomy 17:2, 6; Deuteronomy 18:20; Deuteronomy 19:12; Deuteronomy 22:22, 25; Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 6:30; 1 Samuel 14:43, 45 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 19:24; Jeremiah 38:24; יָמוּת מוֹת, die = be put to a violent death (> AV RV surely die), 1 Samuel 14:39, 44; 1 Samuel 22:16; 1 Kings 2:37, 42 (all Judaic), Jeremiah 26:8, all of capital punishment; 2 Kings 8:10 (Ehpraimitic source) cf assassination; מוֺת יוּמַת be put to a violent death, in the codes of Exodus 21:12, 15, 16, 17; Exodus 22:18 (E), Leviticus 20:2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 27; Leviticus 24:16, 17 (H), Exodus 31:14, 15; Numbers 15:35; Numbers 35:16, 17, 18, 21, 31; Leviticus 27:29 (P; never in D; D uses verb, either Qal or Hiph., without infinitive absolute); it is used in narratives Genesis 26:11 (J), Exodus 19:12 (E), Judges 21:5. מ׳ is preceded by רגם Numbers 15:36 (P), Deuteronomy 21:21; 1 Kings 12:18 2 Chronicles 10:18; 1 Kings 21:13; סקל Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 17:5; Deuteronomy 22:21, 24; 1 Kings 21:10, 13, 14, 15; פגע 1 Kings 2:25, 46; רמס 2 Kings 7:17, 20; בְּיַד גֹּאֵל Joshua 20:9 (P).
c. die, perish, of a nation by divine judgment, Moab Amos 2:2, Ephraim Hosea 13:1; בית ישׂראל Ezekiel 18:31; Ezekiel 33:1.
d. die prematurely, by neglect of wise moral conduct Proverbs 5:23; Proverbs 10:21; Proverbs 15:10; Proverbs 19:16; Proverbs 23:13; EC Proverbs 7:17. —
Note. On (לַבֵּן) עַלמֿוּת Psalm 9:1; Psalm 48:15 see עַלְמָה below II. עלם.
Po`lel. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix מוֺתְתַנִי Jeremiah 20:17; 1st person singular מֹתַתִּי 2 Samuel 1:16; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix יְמֹתְתֵהוּ 1 Samuel 17:51; 3rd person feminine singular תְּמוֺתֵת Psalm 34:22; 1st person singular suffix אֲמֹתְתֵהוּ 2 Samuel 1:10; Imperative suffix מוֺתְתֵנִי Judges 9:54; מֹתְתֵנִי 2 Samuel 1:9; infinitive מוֺתֵת Psalm 109:16; Participle מְמוֺתֵת 1 Samuel 14:13; — kill, put to death, despatch (intensive), absolute 1 Samuel 14:13, elsewhere with accusative Judges 9:54; 1 Samuel 17:51; 2 Samuel 1:9, 10, 16; Jeremiah 20:17; Psalm 34:22; Psalm 109:16.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הֵמִית Judges 16:30 +; suffix וֶהֱמִתָ֑נִי 2 Samuel 14:32; הֱמִיתָם Jeremiah 41:8; 3rd person feminine singular suffix הֱמִיתָ֑תְהוּ 2 Chronicles 22:11; 2nd person masculine singular הֵמַתָּה Numbers 14:15; 1st person singular suffix הֲמִיתִּיו (read הֲמִתִּיו) 1 Samuel 17:35; 3rd person masculine plural הֵמִיתוּ 1 Samuel 30:2 +, etc.; Imperfect יָמִית Numbers 35:19 +; וַיָּ֫מֶת Genesis 38:10 +; suffix יְמִיתֵהוּ 1 Kings 13:24 +; יְמִתֶנּוּ Numbers 35:19 +; Imperative suffix הֲמִיתֵנִי 1 Samuel 20:8; plural הָמִיתוּ 1 Samuel 22:17; Infinitive absolute הָמֵת 2 Kings 11:15 +; construct הָמִית Leviticus 20:4 +; Participle מֵמִית 1 Samuel 2:6; pl, מְמִיתִים 2 Kings 17:26; Job 33:22; מְמִתִים Jeremiah 26:15; — kill, put to death
1. absolute Job 9:23, elsewhere with accusative, subject man,
a. of killing men in personal combat, or in war, often preceded by הכּה smite Joshua 10:26; Joshua 11:17; Joshua 17:50 +; of destroying a city 2 Samuel 20:19 (|| השׁחית 2 Samuel 20:20).
2. subject God, by inflicting penalty, absolute Deuteronomy 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:6; 2 Kings 5:7, elsewhere with accusative Genesis 18:25; Genesis 38:7, 10; Exodus 4:24; Numbers 14:15 (J), Deuteronomy 9:28; Judges 13:23; 1 Samuel 2:25; 1 Samuel 5:10, 11; 1 Chronicles 2:3; 1 Chronicles 10:14; Isaiah 65:15; Hosea 9:16; ברעב Isaiah 14:30; בצמא Hosea 2:5; of killing fish Psalm 105:29; מְמִיתִים Job 33:22 executioners, angels of death.
3. of animals killing men, e.g. ox Exodus 21:29 (E), lion 1 Kings 13:24, 26; 2 Kings 17:26.
4. bring to a premature death Proverbs 19:18; Proverbs 21:25.
Hoph. Perfect הוּמָ֑ת 2 Kings 11:2 +; 3rd person masculine plural הֻמְתוּ 2 Samuel 21:9; Imperfect יוּמַת Leviticus 20:10 +; יוּמָ֑ת Genesis 26:11 +; Participle מוּמָת 1 Samuel 19:11, plural מוּמָתִים 2 Kings 11:2 (Qr), 2 Chronicles 22:11; — be killed, put to death:
1. by conspiracy 2 Kings 11:2 (twice in verse) = 2 Chronicles 22:11; 2 Kings 11:8, 15, 16; 2 Chronicles 23:7, 14.
3. by divine infliction, in the phrase מות יוּמת (see Qal 2b).
4. die prematurely Proverbs 19:16.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H4193.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:17; 2:17; 3:3; 3:4; 7:22; 11:28; 18:25; 19:19; 20:3; 20:3; 20:7; 23:4; 25:8; 25:8; 25:17; 25:32; 26:9; 26:11; 26:11; 30:1; 33:13; 35:18; 35:29; 36:33; 36:34; 36:35; 36:36; 36:37; 36:38; 36:39; 38:7; 38:10; 38:10; 38:11; 38:11; 42:20; 42:38; 44:9; 46:30

Exodus

1:16; 4:24; 7:18; 8:9; 10:28; 11:5; 12:33; 12:36; 16:3; 19:12; 21:12; 21:14; 21:15; 21:16; 21:17; 21:18; 21:20; 21:22; 21:29; 21:29; 22:18; 28:35; 28:43; 30:20; 31:14; 31:15; 35:2

Leviticus

8:35; 10:2; 10:6; 10:7; 10:9; 11:39; 15:21; 16:1; 16:2; 16:13; 19:20; 20:2; 20:4; 20:4; 20:9; 20:10; 20:10; 20:11; 20:12; 20:13; 20:15; 20:16; 20:20; 20:27; 22:9; 24:16; 24:16; 24:17; 24:21; 27:29

Numbers

1:15; 3:4; 3:10; 3:38; 4:15; 4:19; 4:20; 14:2; 14:9; 14:15; 14:15; 14:35; 14:37; 15:35; 15:36; 16:29; 18:3; 18:7; 18:22; 18:32; 25:9; 26:11; 26:61; 26:65; 27:3; 35:12; 35:16; 35:17; 35:17; 35:18; 35:19; 35:19; 35:19; 35:21; 35:21; 35:23; 35:30; 35:31

Deuteronomy

5:22; 9:10; 9:28; 13:6; 13:11; 17:2; 17:5; 17:6; 17:6; 17:7; 18:16; 18:20; 19:12; 20:5; 20:6; 20:7; 21:21; 21:22; 22:21; 22:22; 22:24; 22:25; 24:7; 24:16; 32:39; 32:50; 33:6

Joshua

1:18; 2:14; 10:11; 10:26; 11:17; 20:9

Judges

6:23; 6:30; 6:31; 8:32; 9:54; 9:54; 10:2; 10:5; 12:7; 12:10; 12:12; 12:15; 13:21; 13:22; 13:23; 15:13; 16:30; 20:13; 21:5

1 Samuel

2:6; 2:6; 2:23; 2:25; 5:10; 5:11; 5:12; 11:12; 11:13; 12:19; 14:13; 14:13; 14:39; 14:43; 14:44; 14:45; 17:35; 17:51; 17:51; 19:6; 19:11; 19:11; 19:24; 20:8; 20:32; 22:16; 22:17; 24:15; 25:17; 25:37; 25:38; 25:39; 28:9; 30:2

2 Samuel

1:9; 1:9; 1:10; 1:10; 1:16; 1:16; 2:31; 6:7; 9:8; 10:1; 12:13; 12:14; 14:7; 14:14; 14:32; 14:32; 16:9; 17:23; 19:1; 19:11; 19:22; 19:23; 19:38; 20:3; 20:19; 20:20; 21:4; 21:9; 21:9

1 Kings

1:51; 2:8; 2:24; 2:25; 2:26; 2:34; 2:37; 2:42; 2:46; 3:26; 3:27; 11:40; 12:18; 13:24; 13:24; 13:26; 19:4; 19:17; 21:10; 21:13; 21:13; 21:14; 21:15

2 Kings

1:4; 1:6; 1:16; 1:17; 5:7; 7:4; 7:17; 7:20; 8:10; 8:15; 11:2; 11:2; 11:2; 11:8; 11:15; 11:15; 11:16; 11:20; 13:24; 14:6; 14:6; 14:6; 14:6; 17:26; 17:26; 19:35

1 Chronicles

1:44; 1:45; 1:46; 1:47; 1:48; 1:49; 1:50; 2:3; 10:13; 10:14; 19:1; 24:2; 29:28

2 Chronicles

10:18; 13:20; 15:13; 22:11; 22:11; 22:11; 23:7; 23:14; 23:21; 25:4; 25:4; 25:4

Esther

4:11

Job

2:9; 9:23; 12:22; 14:8; 33:22; 33:22

Psalms

9:1; 34:22; 34:22; 105:29; 106:28; 109:16; 109:16

Proverbs

5:23; 7:17; 10:21; 15:10; 19:16; 19:16; 19:18; 21:25; 23:13

Ecclesiastes

9:4

Isaiah

11:4; 14:30; 22:2; 26:19; 37:36; 65:15; 66:24

Jeremiah

11:22; 11:22; 20:17; 20:17; 21:6; 26:8; 26:15; 26:15; 26:19; 26:21; 26:24; 31:30; 38:4; 38:9; 38:15; 38:15; 38:16; 38:24; 38:25; 41:8

Ezekiel

3:18; 3:18; 3:19; 3:20; 3:20; 13:19; 18:4; 18:13; 18:17; 18:18; 18:20; 18:21; 18:24; 18:26; 18:26; 18:28; 18:31; 28:8; 33:1; 33:8; 33:8; 33:9; 33:13; 33:14; 33:15; 33:18

Hosea

2:5; 9:16; 13:1

Amos

2:2

Zechariah

11:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4191 matches the Hebrew מוּת (mûṯ),
which occurs 27 times in 22 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 -

Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram,[fn] who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. However, King Rehoboam managed to get into his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:20 -

Jeroboam no longer retained his power[fn] during Abijah’s reign; ultimately, the LORD struck him and he died.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:13 -

Whoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel would be put to death, young or old,[fn] man or woman.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:13 -

Asa rested with his ancestors; he died in the forty-first year of his reign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:34 -

The battle raged throughout that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Arameans until evening. Then he died at sunset.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 21:19 -

This continued day after day until two full years passed. Then his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died from severe[fn] illnesses. But his people did not hold a fire in his honor like the fire in honor of his predecessors.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 -

Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him (he was hiding in Samaria). So they brought Ahaziah to Jehu, and they killed him. The soldiers buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So no one from the house of Ahaziah had the strength to rule the kingdom.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:10 -

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs[fn] of the house of Judah.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:11 -

Jehoshabeath,[fn] the king’s daughter, rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. Now Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of the priest Jehoiada. Since she was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:7 -

“The Levites are to completely surround the king with weapons in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. Accompany the king in all his daily tasks.”[fn]

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:14 -

Then the priest Jehoiada sent out the commanders of hundreds, those in charge of the army, saying, “Take her out between the ranks, and put anyone who follows her to death by the sword,” for the priest had said, “Don’t put her to death in the LORD’s temple.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:15 -

So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horse Gate to the king’s palace, where they put her to death.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:21 -

All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death by the sword.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:15 -

Jehoiada died when he was old and full of days; he was 130 years old at his death.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:22 -

King Joash didn’t remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him, but killed his son. While he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and demand an account.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:25 -

When the Arameans saw that Joash had many wounds, they left him. His servants conspired against him, and killed him on his bed, because he had shed the blood of the sons of the priest Jehoiada. So he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:4 -

However, he did not put their children to death, because ​— ​as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded ​— ​“Fathers are not to die because of children, and children are not to die because of fathers, but each one will die for his own sin.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:27 -

From the time Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. However, men were sent after him to Lachish, and they put him to death there.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:11 -

“Isn’t Hezekiah misleading you to give you over to death by famine and thirst when he says, “The LORD our God will keep us from the grasp of the king of Assyria”?

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:24 -

In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death, so he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a miraculous sign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:24 -

So his servants conspired against him and put him to death in his own house.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:24 -

So his servants took him out of the war chariot, carried him in his second chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem. Then he died, and they buried him in the tomb of his ancestors. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

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